Lesson 2 in the series about Image Editing explores a simple use of the Clone Tool

The video for lesson 1 in the image editing series is now up on the blog together with some hints as to what the remaining 4 lessons will be about.

Seashore is the open source photograph and image editor based on Gimp technology and tailored for Apple mac OS native cocoa environment but the video lesson is fairly basic and applicable to any image editing software that uses layers.

All the pointers are that as the newest generations grow up and take their place, so video will become the most important ICT. This will happen on the internet just as soon as broadband becomes fast enough and ubiquitous, which is happening already to a certain extent. YouTube has become one of the most useful resources for looking up music, for example. Marketers believe that video creates a stronger relationship with viewers than readers of text of listeners to podcasts.

On the other hand there are some distinct disadvantages of video. It tends to be a broadcast medium rather than an interactive community channel for dialogue. Also it can be a slow way of absorbing information. The fast forward button doesn’t work nearly as well as an eyeball scanning over text looking for particular items of interest. As a view, you get lulled into a slow frame of mind, patiently waiting for the video presenter to get to the point!

Now maybe a good time to reflect on the existence of the ICT Tutor blog. I’ll probably use a cut down version of Gibbs Reflective cycle.

What?

So What?

What Next?

Here is the ICT news for the UK as supplied by Google News:

In this screencast tutorial I take a look inside the Wordpress 2.7 dashboard and show how text box widgets are lost when removed.

I’m occasionally asked what the difference is between IT and ICT. Normally, I’d respond that ICT is a subject for education whereas IT is what real people do. Wikipedia defines ICT as a whole load of things but particularly thus:

Information and Communications Technology – or technologies (ICT) is an umbrella term that includes all technologies for the manipulation and communication of information. The term is sometimes used in preference to Information Technology (IT), particularly in two communities: education and government. In the common usage it is often assumed that ICT is synonymous with IT; ICT in fact encompasses any medium to record information (magnetic disk/tape, optical disks (CD/DVD), flash memory etc. and arguably also paper records); technology for broadcasting information – radio, television; and technology for communicating through voice and sound or images – microphone, camera, loudspeaker, telephone to cellular phones. It includes the wide variety of computing hardware (PCs, servers, mainframes, networked storage), the rapidly developing personal hardware market comprising mobile phones, personal devices, MP3 players, and much more; the full gamut of application software from the smallest home-developed spreadsheet to the largest enterprise packages and online software services; and the hardware and software needed to operate networks for transmission of information, again ranging from a home network to the largest global private networks operated by major commercial enterprises and, of course, the Internet. Thus, “ICT” makes more explicit that technologies such as broadcasting and wireless mobile telecommunications are included.

So you can see that there’s a bit of a generation thing going on here. Anything to do with mainframes, data processing and even “computer science” was covered by IT whereas the “C” in ICT was added in order to emphasise the networking and broadcast aspects of the technology.

I followed my nephew to work and was amazed at the use of ICT in his workplace, a popular West End of London Theatre. The sound equipment, lighting, management, logistics, finance and marketing are all heavily relient upon ICTs. So next time you’re enjoying London theatre breaks be aware that none of it would be possible without our little silicon friends.

ICT introduction model

Digitisation,Database,Analysis,Media and Representation

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The thumbnail technique is a traditional way of linking to larger images on other pages and is very effective when viewing large galleries of pictures to decide which one you’d like to explore. Here a thumbnail is being used instead to link to a portable document file ( pdf) which is interesting.

Documenting Eurostar Deals | Eurostar Deals
Viewing The Eurostar Deals Document

Scroll the flash paper above, or click the thumbnail below to visit the eurostar deals pipe document at edocr.com

Eurostar Deals from London to Paris by Pipe

Some of the articles which have been merged into the document